Re-using clothes saves CO2
Each kg of clothes donated saves 4 kg of CO2! Help save the Environment By donating unused clothes you contribute to the good health of our planet. Production of new cotton as well as other textile fibers puts a strain on the environment: To produce 1 lb. of clothes -that is 1 pair of trousers – requires on average: 10,000 lb. of water 0.5 lb. of fertilizers 0.4 oz. of pesticides and results in emissions of: 6 lb. of greenhouse gases When you donate clothes for reuse and recycling you contribute to saving more than half of this. In the following I go though the calculations. How much CO2 is saved? There are no calculations available from the US, but recently a detailed analysis, based on an initiative from the Gaia-Movement, was published by the Danish Technological University. Open or download the article: “Environmental benefits from reusing clothes” from the scientific magazine “Int. Journal of Life Cycle Assessment”, 2010. The report calculated the environmental benefits of rec...